Wooly Winter

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Today's card features the super cute sheeps of Mama Elephant's Wooly Winter. I made a more untraditional card in images and colours.

I started by stamping three of the sheeps and some accessoires, colouring them using coloured pencils and fussy cutting them out (there are coordinating dies available). For the sheeps I chose warm greys and decided to go with reds and pinks for the rest of the details.

These colours determine the colours of the background. Therefore I used Distress Oxide Inks in Festive Berries, Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar for the inkblending. I also stamped snowflakes using Hickory Smoke that I took from the Sets W Plus 9's Folk Art Flurries and Avery Elle's Snow Much Fun.

From the background I created I die cut My Favourite Things' Stitched Dome Frames. I die cut it a second time from warm grey cardstock matching the sheeps. That one I adhered to the cardbase using dimensional adhesive. The inner piece I glued down flat.

I arranged the sheeps in the frame and added a sentiment by die cutting the word Merry from W Plus 9's Hand lettered Holidays several times and stacking them up. I also added a tiny Christmas from Lawn Fawn Say What? Christmas Critters.

I also stamped some snowflakes on the cardbase and that finished up my card!

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

         

Merry Christmas

Hey stampers, Anni here!
I am back with another Christmas card - again.

My starting point was this super cute set by Neat & Tangled called Into The Woods. I just had to use this adorable deer. But this set is a fall set. So I decided to combine it with another set for some Christmas accessoires. I went with Reverse Confetti's Christmas Bear. I used the gift, the tiny bird, the snowflakes, the star and the sentiment from this set.

I started by stamping, colouring (using alcohol markers) and fussy cutting the images for my card.
The snowflakes and the star I used for my background. I stamped them and heat embossed them with white embossing powder on watercolour cardstock. Then I created a background by adding ink and water to the paper. I chose inks in turquoise shades. This is one of my favourite colour combos for Christmas: red, turquoise and a warm brown.
From this piece of cardstock I die cut a frame using My Favorite Things Stitched Dome Frames.

I embossed the sentiment in white on a stripe of brown cardstock and assembled the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend (perhaps making some Christmas cards?)